oak wrote:Chip has many different tea cups, and with different sizes. Could anyone tell me when to use a size and when another? or where I could read about this issue?. Thank you.

Hi oak, I´m very noob but I can tell you some things, if I make mistakes please correct me.

It´s depend on the type of tea. For japanese greens I think 200 ml is a good size (normally they are brewed over 3 times(600ml), It´s depend on the quality of tea) I think the normal size of japanese teacups is 200ml . For chinese green I think the same volume is right, but you can use what you want with all teas hehehe, no rules....

Some people use gong fu style (small teapot, like my last picture and small cups, like 40 or 50 ml for one person, although a 80-100-120ml teapot is good for one person too, the bigest better for oolong teas because the leaves open inside the teapot and the volume of water you can add is lesser) for chinese greens, although this style is used pretty much for oolongs, pu-erh and black teas.

Chawans or tea bowls are used for matcha tea, they originated in Japan but there are western artisans who do these beautiful pieces too.

oak wrote:Chip has many different tea cups, and with different sizes. Could anyone tell me when to use a size and when another? or where I could read about this issue?. Thank you.

Hi oak, I´m very noob but I can tell you some things, if I make mistakes please correct me.

It´s depend on the type of tea. For japanese greens I think 200 ml is a good size (normally they are brewed over 3 times(600ml), It´s depend on the quality of tea) I think the normal size of japanese teacups is 200ml . For chinese green I think the same volume is right, but you can use what you want with all teas hehehe, no rules....

Some people use gong fu style (small teapot, like my last picture and small cups, like 40 or 50 ml for one person, although a 80-100-120ml teapot is good for one person too, the bigest better for oolong teas because the leaves open inside the teapot and the volume of water you can add is lesser) for chinese greens, although this style is used pretty much for oolongs, pu-erh and black teas.

Chawans or tea bowls are used for matcha tea, they originated in Japan but there are western artisans who do these beautiful pieces too.

Then, the green teas are softer, right?, and oolongs pu-erh and black tea, about half.

I've been preparing and drinking black tea bags placed directely on the glass of water, then remove and add the lemon juice, with no problems and very rich, but this morning it occurred to me to buy a glass tea pot and plastic for 1 euro, to make it work. Surprisingly, in two minutes left completely black it, I started taking it flavor, but I had to stop because I thought was a tachycardia and with nausea. When I got home I prepared macaroni with cheese and vegetables in a hurry, it was agree with me, then I took a tea of rock infusion. Now I'm fine but I don't dare take black tea at the moment.

Chip wrote:TBH, 70% of the cup size for me is based upon mood. 30% is based on the tea. Sometimes I feel like a larger wan, sometimes a guinomi.

I never know til after I pick the tea, the pot ... and then decide on cup(s).

Sometimes it goes the other way round for me--want to use a particular cup and need to drink the right tea for that cup, e.g., not hot-brewed puerh in large deep thin-walled Hagi.....but mostly it is mood, whim, what have you.

It is a little bit of a joke around here, our teaware addiction goes by many names one of which is TAD (Teaware Acquisition Disorder), but the "bug" part comes in because most of us can be fine for awhile then all of a sudden dive off the deep end, almost like we caught something like a flu or cold virus ( a colloquial name for virus in America is bug).